July meeting presents animal and dairy science

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Scientists from over 50 countries expected to attend

Feb. 26, 2013 - Registration is now open for the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association and the American Society of Animal Science. The meeting will take place in Indianapolis, IN from July 8 to 12, 2013.

The Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) will feature 35 symposia on topics such as animal genetics, food science and animal well-being. The organizers have planned additional high-level workshops, including a hands-on media training workshop on July 12.

Animal and dairy scientists work hard to protect animal health, food safety and the environment. The 2013 JAM is a chance for researchers to share their data and their passion for the field. Attendees will learn about scientific developments and new technologies used in research.

Attendees will also network with scientists from around the world. The organizers expect more than 3,000 attendees from more than 50 countries. There will also be special career development events for graduate students.

The organizers encourage professional scientists, veterinarians, producers, educators, policy makers and students to attend.

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Contact: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt
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American Society of Animal Science

Scientists from over 50 countries expected to attend

Feb. 26, 2013 - Registration is now open for the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association and the American Society of Animal Science. The meeting will take place in Indianapolis, IN from July 8 to 12, 2013.

The Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) will feature 35 symposia on topics such as animal genetics, food science and animal well-being. The organizers have planned additional high-level workshops, including a hands-on media training workshop on July 12.

Animal and dairy scientists work hard to protect animal health, food safety and the environment. The 2013 JAM is a chance for researchers to share their data and their passion for the field. Attendees will learn about scientific developments and new technologies used in research.

Attendees will also network with scientists from around the world. The organizers expect more than 3,000 attendees from more than 50 countries. There will also be special career development events for graduate students.

The organizers encourage professional scientists, veterinarians, producers, educators, policy makers and students to attend.

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To learn more about the conference, visit jtmtg.org.

Special passes to JAM are also available to members of the media. Email madelinems@asas.org to request a media pass.

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Winter storm blankets Great Plains with snow

A city snow plow pusheds snow off of Zoo Blvd Thursday morning, Feb. 21, 2013 in Wichita, Kans. Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of Wichita buried under 13 inches of still-falling snow, but winter storm warnings stretched eastern Colorado through Illinois. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Bo Rader)

A city snow plow pusheds snow off of Zoo Blvd Thursday morning, Feb. 21, 2013 in Wichita, Kans. Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of Wichita buried under 13 inches of still-falling snow, but winter storm warnings stretched eastern Colorado through Illinois. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Bo Rader)

Tom McReynolds clears snow from a neigbors' house in Wichita, Kans.,Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of Wichita buried under 13 inches of still-falling snow, but winter storm warnings stretched eastern Colorado through Illinois. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Jaime Greene)

U.S. Postal Service employee Craig Conner tries to navigate a mail cart to his vehicle Thursday morning Feb. 21, 2013 in downtown St. Joseph, Mo., shortly after the snow storm started. Winter storm warnings were issued from eastern Colorado through Illinois Thursday. (AP Photo/St. Joseph News-Press, Todd Weddle)

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A pedestrian crosses the street near the Country Club Plaza shopping district Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. The Missouri Department of Transportation said Interstate 44 near Springfield was completely covered with ice Thursday morning. Traffic was moving very slow and the DOT urged drivers to use extreme caution or stay home. St. Louis-area road crews were out in full force early Thursday, even though it was dry. The region was expecting a volatile mix of snow, sleet, ice and freezing rain by midday and crews were hoping to lay down enough salt to keep at least the major roadways moving. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Blinding snow, at times accompanied by thunder and lightning, bombarded much of the nation's midsection Thursday, causing whiteout conditions, making major roadways all but impassable and shutting down schools and state legislatures.

Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of the state buried under 14 inches of powdery snow, but winter storm warnings stretched from eastern Colorado through Illinois. Freezing rain and sleet were forecast for southern Missouri, southern Illinois and Arkansas. St. Louis was expected to get all of the above ? a treacherous mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain.

Several accidents were blamed on icy and slushy roadways, including two fatal accidents. Most schools in Kansas and Missouri, and many in neighboring states, were closed. Legislatures shut down early in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska and Iowa.

By midmorning Thursday, the snowfall was so heavy that Kansas City International Airport shut down. About 90 flights were also cancelled at Lambert Airport in St. Louis, where sleet and ice began falling late-morning.

"Thundersnow" accompanied the winter storm in parts of Kansas and Missouri, which National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Truett said is the result of an unstable air mass, much like a thunderstorm.

"Instead of pouring rain, it's pouring snow," Truett said. And pouring was a sound description, with snow falling at a rate of 1 1/2 to 2 inches per hour in some spots. Kansas City, Mo., got 5 inches in two hours.

Snow totals passed the foot mark in many places: Monarch Pass, Colo., had 17 ? inches, Hutchinson, Kan., 14 inches and Wichita, Kan., 13 inches. The National Weather Service said up to 18 inches of snow were possible in Kansas towns such as Salina, Russell and Great Bend.

With that in mind, Kansas transportation officials ? and even the governor ? urged people to simply stay home. Drivers were particularly warned away from the Kansas Turnpike, as whiteout conditions meant low visibility for the length of the turnpike, from Oklahoma to Kansas City.

Interstate 70, which runs the length of Kansas, was also snow-packed and icy. State transportation officials closed a 90-mile stretch of I-70 between Salina and Hays.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback closed executive offices, except for essential personnel.

"If you don't have to get out, just really, please, don't do it," Brownback said.

Some travelers gave up, filling hotels rather than skating across dangerous roadways.

At the Econo Lodge in WaKeeney, Kan., assistant manager Michael Tidball said the 48-room hotel was full by 10 p.m. Wednesday and that most guests were opting to stay an extra day. He said travelers reported that snow was freezing on their windshields faster than wipers could keep them clean.

The blowing snow didn't stop everyone. Christy Walker, a waitress at the Polly Anna Cafe in Woodward, Okla., got stuck in the 8 inches of snow during her drive into work. But business in the western Oklahoma town was brisk, she said.

"It's affecting everybody who is hungry and wants to come out to eat," she said. "I'm extremely busy right now."

Areas in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle also had up to 8 inches of snow by Thursday morning. Arkansas saw a mix of precipitation ? some got a combination of hail, sleet and freezing rain, while others got up to 6 inches of snow. Forecasters warned that northern Arkansas could get a half-inch of ice accumulation.

Near the Nebraska-Kansas border, as much as 8 inches fell overnight, while western Nebraska saw about half of that amount, National Weather Service forecaster Shawn Jacobs said.

Two fatal accidents were attributed to winter weather on Wednesday. In Oklahoma, 18-year-old Cody Alexander of Alex, Okla., died when his pickup truck skidded on a slushy state highway into oncoming traffic and struck a truck. And in Nebraska, 19-year-old Kristina Leigh Anne Allen of Callaway died when a sport utility vehicle lost control in snowy, icy conditions, crossed the median and struck her car.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Thursday morning and activated the State Emergency Operations Center. The declaration allows state agencies to coordinate directly with cities and counties to provide emergency services.

Kansas City-area roads were a mess. Portions of I-70 and I-35 were closed along with many other roads because of snow drifts and slippery conditions. The Missouri Department of Transportation said Interstate 44 near Springfield was completely covered with ice Thursday morning, and traffic was moving very slow.

In Jefferson City, Mo., off-duty police sergeant Randy Werner had been perched atop a hotel for more than 24 hours as a publicity stunt for a charitable fundraiser.

As large snowflakes pelted him in the face Thursday morning, Werner defiantly declared: "The weather's not bothering me, I can assure you."

He then acknowledged that was a lie.

"It's blustery," he said. Werner planned to cut his effort short, having raised less than a third of his goal.

The St. Louis region prepared with some uncertainty. Depending on the temperature and the trajectory of the storm, St. Louis could get snow, freezing rain, ice, sleet or all or some of the above. Crews were hoping to spread enough salt to keep at least the major roadways moving.

Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist for Accuweather, said the storm will push off into the Great Lakes and central Appalachians, and freezing rain could make it as far east and south as North Carolina. He also said a "spin-off" storm was expected to create heavy snow in New England, and could push Boston to a February record.

Accuweather said that by the time the storm dies out, at least 24 states will be affected.

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Associated Press writers Chris Clark in Kansas City, Mo.; Jordan Shapiro in Columbia, Mo.; David A. Lieb in Jefferson City, Mo.; Josh Funk and Nelson Lampe in Omaha, Neb.; John Hanna in Topeka, Kan.; Roxana Hegeman in Wichita, Kan.; Tim Talley in Oklahoma City; David Warren in Dallas; Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark.; and Steven K. Paulson in Denver contributed to this report.

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Mexico state security officials collaborated in civilian abductions: Human Rights Watch

According to Human Rights Watch, police and soldiers played roles in 'disappearing' nearly 150 people amid Mexico's drug war. Tens of thousands have gone missing over the past six years.?

By Whitney Eulich,?Staff writer / February 21, 2013

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The very government and security forces meant to protect Mexicans from the violence that has overwhelmed the country during its drug war played a role in the disappearance of nearly 150 people over a six-year period, with little or no investigation into the cases, Human Rights Watch announced yesterday.

The new report, entitled ?Mexico?s Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Crisis Ignored,? documents some 249 cases of disappearances between December 2006 and 2012, with 149 providing ?compelling evidence? that state security officials were involved. The involvement is not limited to Mexico?s notoriously corrupt local police, but includes evidence of participation by members of all security branches, including the Army, federal and local police, and the oft-lauded Navy.

In more than 60 cases, the human rights group found proof of collaboration between state agents and crime syndicates. One example cited in the report was the case of 19 construction workers ?arbitrarily? taken into police custody in May 2011, only to be handed over to an organized crime group. The men have not been seen since then, and Human Rights Watch postulates in cases like this security forces and crime groups work together to disappear citizens in order to extort their families.

But the 249 cases investigated in the report do not represent the entirety of Mexico?s population that has gone missing over the past six years.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Atty. Gen. Jesus Murillo Karam said in late 2012 that thousands of people were disappeared during President Felipe Calder?n?s six-year term in office.

This week, a senior government official placed the number of disappeared in Mexico at 27,000. Human Rights Watch, however,?finds the government?s tally incomplete, reports The New York Times. ?Among other problems, the list fails to distinguish how many were eventually found or how many people left by choice,? though it is a good indicator of the scale of the problem, The NY Times notes.

"President Pe?a Nieto has inherited one of the worst crises of disappearances in the history of Latin America," said Jos? Vivanco, the Americas director of Human Rights Watch. Countries like Argentina, which is still dealing with the repercussions of the state?s role in the disappearance of citizens during its military dictatorship that ended in 1983, illustrate the long-term implications of such activity.

According to The Christian Science Monitor, President Calder?n, who left office in December, attempted to fight organized crime head on, with often deadly results. An estimated 70,000 people died in Mexico since 2006.

President Calder?n, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), made fighting drug cartels the cornerstone of his administration ? a calculation he made clear by donning Army fatigues and telling the nation he meant business in January 2007, just a month after taking office. While Mexicans largely hailed this courageous move to send thousands of military personnel to root out organized crime from urban pockets and tiny pueblos alike, they quickly wearied from the unthinkable slaughter and its impact on society.

Human Rights Watch has called on the new administration of Enrique Pe?a Nieto, which began in December 2012, to account for those who are missing. It recommended reforming the military justice system and creating a national database that could link the missing with the thousands of bodies that have been left unidentified during Mexico?s drug-war violence.

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Pe?a Nieto has taken some steps to change the nature of fighting crimes since taking office.

? Mr. Pe?a Nieto has folded the ministry that used to be in charge of the Federal Police into the Interior Ministry. Mr. Pe?a Nieto also has plans to form a 10,000-strong militarized police force, called a Gendarmerie, similar Spain's Guardia Civil or France's National Gendarmerie to patrol rural areas.

A separate Christian Science Monitor story notes that although Pe?a Nieto hasn?t backed away from using the military to fight crime, his administration has ?promised a more multi-faceted approach.?

A Human Rights Watch delegation presented copies of its report to representatives of the current administration, which responded by saying it is ?working to prevent disappearances and improve search methods,? reports the LA Times.

But Nik Steinberg, an author of the report, said, "As positive as that is, none of this can work until the government starts to do what the previous government never did and determines who is responsible and brings them to justice.?

Investigating crimes and bringing justice to victims is an ongoing challenge in Mexico. According to The Christian Science Monitor, the Mexican justice system has the capacity to pursue some 4,000 cases of homicide each year.? But given the ongoing drug war, homicides have gone up to close to 25,000 annually, overwhelming the justice system and its resources to try all types of crimes. ?

President Pe?a Nieto has also taken steps to address the needs of victims through legislation such as The General Law of Victims, which passed this year after stalling under Calder?n?s administration. According to The Monitor:

To start, the law makes ?victim? a legally recognized entity. It provides for a victim?s right to respectful treatment, a full investigation of the crime, and the awarding of damages whenever possible.

The law also demands the creation of a new National System of Attention to Victims to aid victims in various capacities, a national victims? registry, and a fund to dole out reparations ? ostensibly?to be?paid for with cash and property seized from criminals.

Critics, including other victims' groups, say the law is flawed. In a statement, the victims? advocate group Mexico S.O.S. highlighted what it sees as the law?s failings. For one thing, the group says, it only covers victims of federal crimes, not state and local crimes. And it creates a scheme in which the state must pay out damages caused by a criminal. What's more, they argue that the law defines ?victim? in terms that are unnecessarily sweeping and vague.?

Pe?a Nieto conceded the law ?still needs to be improved? and has asked lawmakers to work up reforms.

Reuters reports that family members of some of the disappeared "have asked for soldiers guilty of rights abuses to be judged like civilians." Mexico?s Supreme Court has approved such measures.

"To us it just seems that the military is untouchable," Laura Orozco, who says she witnessed her brother's military-led abduction, told Reuters. "They're bulletproof."

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Talking about being old is important indicator of body dissatisfaction

Feb. 21, 2013 ? Similar to talking about being fat, talking about being old is an important an indicator of body dissatisfaction, shows research in BioMed Central's open access journal Journal of Eating Disorders.

Body dissatisfaction is known to be correlated with, and predictive of, physical and mental health problems including binge eating, emotional eating, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and use of unhealthy weight control behaviours. High levels of talking about weight and being fat, 'fat talk', is known to be a good indicator of body dissatisfaction.

In order to see if the impact of 'fat talk' and other aspects of body image such as aging, 'old talk', was the same throughout women's lives, researchers from Trinity University and University of the West of England surveyed almost 1000 women, whose ages ranged from 18 to 87.

The results showed that both 'fat talk' and 'old talk' occurred throughout women's lives, but in general women talked less about age and getting older than they did about their concerns with weight. 'Fat talk' appeared to be a younger woman's topic and became less frequent with age, while 'old talk' increased.

Women who reported higher levels of 'fat talk' and 'old talk' also tended to have a more negative body image. Dr. Carolyn Black Becker, who led this study, noted, "Until now, most research has focused on the negative effects of the thin-ideal and speech, such as 'fat talk', in younger women, but we need to remember that the thin-ideal is also a young-ideal which, as our results show, becomes increasingly important to negative body image as women age."

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Rise of Islamists frays strategic UAE-Egyptian relations

DUBAI (Reuters) - Days before his overthrow, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received a senior visitor from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of several Gulf monarchies long supportive of the most Arab populous country and its veteran strongman.

What transpired between Mubarak and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan is not known, beyond the fact that a letter from UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan was delivered.

But the significance of the February 8, 2011 visit was clear: It was a gesture of understanding and concern for a longtime friend who had been a trusted diplomatic ally for most Gulf Arabs, not least in their confrontation with non-Arab Iran.

Fast forward to 2013 and the picture is starkly different.

The UAE-Egyptian relationship has been strained by the regional spread of Islamist influence - Egypt now has an elected Islamist president - with implications not only for the two protagonists but all Arab states hit by the uprisings against dictators and dynasties that began two years ago.

Poorer, densely populated Arab states like Egypt often look to Gulf states for investment and financing, as well as overseas work for their nationals, a need ever more acute with rulers under unprecedented pressure to produce jobs and services.

The UAE, home to around 380,000 Egyptian expatriates and a major investor in Egypt, pledged $3 billion of aid to Cairo in 2011. But the funds have not yet been transferred, an Egyptian source familiar with the matter told Reuters, mainly due to the political instability in post-revolution Egypt.

A break in relations between the Arab political heavyweight and the Gulf financial powerhouse would be unthinkable. But the unfamiliar chill in their dealings reflects an increasingly complicated relationship between these two groups of countries.

Gulf states historically have sent aid and investment to less moneyed fellow Arabs, and in return have received diplomatic support and sometimes military protection.

The UAE-Egypt spat "does have a huge bearing on the success of the Arab transitions", said Jane Kinninmont of the British think tank Chatham House.

HUGE ECONOMIC NEEDS

"Here you have a number of countries which are going through transitions but which have huge economic needs. The obvious place for them to look is the wealthy Gulf Arab countries."

Arab countries received 62 percent of all Gulf aid from 1970 to 2008, according to a study by researchers Bessma Momani and Crystal Ennis in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

For its part, the UAE needs to tread a careful line, analysts say.

Aggravating Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood could also affect UAE relations with other countries, like Syria, where Islamists are playing a major role in the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

And irking Egypt's new rulers could also push Cairo closer to Shi'ite Iran, arch-adversary of the Gulf Arabs.

Gulf Sunni Muslim rulers fear that, despite being a Sunni group itself, the Brotherhood is soft on Iran, unlike Mubarak.

"The Emirates recognise that Egypt's centrality in Arab affairs is an important counter to Iran," said Frederic Wehrey, Middle East program senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think-tank.

Gulf Arab states need a prosperous Egypt for a host of reasons, not least to protect their own investments.

But history shows that financial help from the region sometimes reflects shifts in the diplomatic climate - even if governments insist their assistance is not political.

For example Jordan's ties with Gulf were hurt in 1990 when it refused to join an alliance against Iraq after it invaded Kuwait. Many Palestinians and Jordanians lost jobs in the Gulf where they enjoyed welfare state benefits as expatriate workers.

There are implications, too, for Gulf Arab states. Most saw Mubarak's fall as the result of a U.S. decision to cast adrift an erstwhile ally and common adversary of Iran, rather than as an acceptance of an unstoppable revolution.

Crucially, Gulf Arab rulers alarmed by Mubarak's ouster were further disconcerted by the subsequent ascent to power of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mubarak's sworn foe and a group once cited in a U.S. diplomatic cable as the UAE's "mortal enemy".

If Washington was ready to deal with the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, could it do the same in the Gulf, if a new democratic dispensation swept away the region's tradition of princely rule?

ANXIETY

There is no shortage of evidence of UAE worries about the reach of Islamists. On January 27 the UAE announced 94 of its citizens would go on trial on charges of seeking to seize power, accusing them of being in communication with the Brotherhood.

Many are believed to be members of al-Islah, an Islamist group suspected of links to the Brotherhood, a movement founded in Egypt in 1928 and which is banned in the Gulf Arab state. Islah says it has no connection to the global Brotherhood.

Some analysts say the arrests are meant to send a message that Islamist activities will not be tolerated, rather than reflecting a belief they pose a significant security threat.

"The UAE has a rule: zero tolerance for political organisations of any sort whether Islamists or non-Islamists, and these guys (Emiratis and Egyptians) broke the law. Pure and simple," UAE political scientist Abdelkhaleq Abdullah said.

But the UAE has continued to strike a firm tone in public.

In October, Sheikh Abdullah, the foreign minister, said: "The Muslim Brotherhood does not believe in the nation state. It does not believe in the sovereignty of the state."

An Emirati source close to the government said the minister's comments were directed at the Brotherhood, not Egypt, and the UAE saw the bilateral relationship as a strategic one.

On January 1, a local newspaper reported that the UAE had also arrested 11 Egyptians on suspicion of training Islamists in how to overthrow governments.

The Brotherhood replied by saying the 11 were wrongfully arrested. Local media in the UAE said the Gulf Arab states had rejected a subsequent request by Cairo to free the detainees.

For its part, the Brotherhood has sought to reassure Gulf Arabs it has no plan to push for political change beyond Egypt's borders. Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has said there is no plan to "export the revolution" - comments welcomed by the UAE.

Both Egypt and the UAE publicly assert that they have a special relationship. After all, Sheikh Abdullah had a meeting with Mursi, whose roots are in the Brotherhood, in Egypt in September 2012 and delivered an invitation for him to visit the UAE. A response is awaited.

PERIODS OF STRAIN

And yet the discordant tone will stir questions over Gulf Arab willingness to make good on promises of support to Egypt, which desperately needs funds to avert financial crisis.

While Gulf Arabs have pledged large sums to Egypt, helping stabilise its currency, they are motivated by their own interests, Richard LeBaron, a former U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, wrote in a study for the Atlantic Council think-tank.

He said most Gulf Arab states, wary of the Brotherhood, had adopted a "wait and see" attitude toward new leaders in Egypt and Tunisia before committing significant additional funds and seemed not to sense any urgency in making such decisions.

Carnegie Endowment's Wehrey wrote that while UAE-Egypt ties could face more turbulence, matters could be resolved due to shared interests including a need to counter Iranian influence and the Brotherhood's need for Gulf investment.

"A key first step is for both sides to avoid strident and provocative statements that fuel the rancour that currently afflicts the relationship," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rise-islamists-frays-strategic-uae-egyptian-relations-173037390.html

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Bribe scandal hits India?s defense modernization

Allegations of corruption in the purchase of 12 Italian helicopters are threatening India?s desperately needed multibillion-dollar modernization of its defense forces.
The CEO of the Italian defense and aerospace company Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, was held in Milan this week on charges of bribing Indian officials to secure a $ 750 million deal in 2010 to sell the AW-101 medium-lift helicopters.
In response, India ordered a federal probe into the charges and put payments on hold. The Defense Ministry also deferred discussions this week on another contract to buy 197 light utility helicopters, fueling fears that the controversy may paralyze the government?s already painfully slow decision-making process. Defense Minister A.K. Antony said Wednesday that if the probe reveals proof of graft, the Italian company and its Britain-based subsidiary ?are liable for criminal actions; they are liable to be prosecuted; the company is liable to be blacklisted.?
?We are not bothered about who the companies are, how strong they are, how influential they are,? Antony said. ?Nobody will be spared.? In a statement Friday, the Defense Ministry said it has notified the Finmeccanica subsidiary, AgustaWestland, that it is seeking to cancel the contract. The company was asked to reply to the notice in seven days.
Defense analysts said the dramatic revelations of bribery that are being splashed across Indian newspapers every day ? and the probe they have prompted ? may cast a shadow over India?s ambitious plans to replace its aging military arsenal. Those plans made the country the world?s largest arms importer last year. The bribes were allegedly offered to officials as high as the former air force chief. The case has reminded many Indians of another defense corruption scandal in the 1980s, which helped bring down a government and pushed back many key defense purchase decisions. A similar delay, they now warn, may threaten India?s security at a time when its lumbering military needs to urgently transform itself into a leaner and more lethal force to face potential threats from neighbors such as China and Pakistan.
?The unfortunate fallout of the current helicopter controversy is that decisions will get stalled, people will play safe and not take any decisions at all, and that will affect our defense modernization and preparedness adversely,? said Mrinal Suman, a retired army major general who instructs foreign defense manufacturers on Indian weapons procurement policies. ?The modernization of our armed forces is already lagging behind by 15 years. About half of the weapons and equipment in India?s armed forces are obsolete.?
In 2011, V.K. Singh, then chief of the Indian army, said the army?s major combat weapons were in an ?alarming? state, making India unfit for war.
India in recent years has embarked on plans to upgrade its Soviet-era arsenal with new fighter aircraft, antitank missiles, maritime patrol aircraft, infantry combat vehicles, helicopters, assault rifles and submarines ? a shopping list worth about $ 100 billion over more than a decade. US companies hope to corner a predominant share of this market in the coming years. Defense trade between the United States and India has generated nearly $ 8 billion since 2005, coinciding with a new era of closer ties between the two nations.
But each defense purchase takes an average of eight to 10 years, frustrating many foreign vendors.
?Overcautious officers delay the process by looping in and marking defense acquisition files to every senior [official], just to avoid taking individual responsibility for their decisions,? said an industry observer familiar with the process.
The reason for such nervousness, analysts said, is the bruising aftermath of a defense corruption scandal in 1989, in which Indian officials were accused of receiving bribes from the Swedish company Bofors in return for a contract to buy howitzers. The scandal cost the then-ruling Congress party dearly in elections that year.

Source: http://www.arabnews.com/node/442098

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Iran's leader steps deeper into the political fray

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? Iran's supreme leader is supposed to be many things in the eyes of his followers: Spiritual mentor, protector of the Islamic Revolution, a moral compass above the regular fray.

Political referee is not among them.

Yet that is the unfamiliar role Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has adopted as the political mudslinging gets heavier ahead of elections in June to pick a successor for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"Bad, wrong, inappropriate," scolded Khamenei on Saturday in his most stinging rebuke of Ahmadinejad for his mounting attacks on rivals ? including an ambush earlier this month in parliament when he played a barely audible videotape that purported to show corruption inside the family of the chamber's speaker.

Khamenei then went on to chide the parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, for publicly humiliating Ahmadinejad in response to the tape.

"When there is a common enemy and conspiracies are hatched from all sides, is there any way other than strengthening brotherhood and resisting the enemy?" Khamenei said in reference to widening Western sanctions and pressures over Iran's nuclear program.

Hardball politics are nothing new in Iran, whose elected parliament and government can make even Washington's bickering seem genteel. It also is unlikely to threaten the real power in Iran: The ruling clerics and their guardians led by the Revolutionary Guard.

But the deepening nastiness inside Iran speaks volumes about the importance of the presidential election on June 14 and how it could reset Tehran's political order.

Khamenei seeks to tamp down the rising political spats that could signal weakness to the West in nuclear negotiations set to resume next week. He also wants to close off any openings for public complaints over the economic pain from the expanding sanctions.

At the same time, however, Khamenei risks blows to his image if his unprecedented personal intervention fails to calm the growing tremors whose epicenter is Ahmadinejad.

Parliament on Sunday showed obedience. More than 260 lawmakers ? nearly the entire 290-seat chamber ? expressed loyalty to Khamenei. Ahmadinejad made no immediate comment.

"The presidential election has raised the stakes in the ongoing blame game," said Abolghasem Bayyenat, a former Iranian trade official who runs the website irandiplomacywatch.com.

Khamenei "certainly does not want the political wrangling ... to get out of control," he said.

But Ahmadinejad shows no signs of heading into a quiet retirement after his second and final term. This raises the possibility he could become something Iran has rarely seen: a political wild card able to muster allies and grass roots backers to complicate life for rivals such as Larijani.

And one of those rivals could very well be sitting in Ahmadinejad's old office in Tehran. Khamenei has pushed back hard against Ahmadinejad's attempts to challenge his authority in the past two years. As payback, the ruling clerics are likely to block any key Ahmadinejad backer from the presidential ballot and bring in someone who has sided with Khamenei as his relationship with Ahmadinejad drifted from cozy to cool to outright hostility.

In the meantime, Ahmadinejad heads into his final months eager to land some punches on his opponents.

"We are witnessing a new precariousness in Iran's internal politics," said Suzanne Maloney, an Iranian affairs expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

There's no clearer evidence than Khamenei, whose hard-core followers believe is answerable only to God. Yet even he can't seem to calm Iran's political tempest with rare ? and increasingly sharp ? orders from on high.

It suggests a diminishing regard for Khamenei and the ruling clerics to fully set the political tone inside Iran ? which could be the ultimate political legacy of Ahmadinejad from his defiance while in office and his possible gadfly role after leaving later this year.

Khamenei's main worry is not whether the opposition can regroup after being hammered following the post-election unrest in 2009. Its leaders are under house arrest and activists know they would face punishing reprisals if they return to the streets.

Instead, it appears Khamenei senses that the internal political rulebook could be under threat.

Ahmadinejad first broke taboos ? and earned himself instant political enemies ? by challenging the authority of Khamenei in 2011 over the appointment of the powerful intelligence ministry post. Since then, Khamenei has been gradually drawn into the mix despite the traditions of the supreme leader remaining aloof from day-to-day affairs.

It seems part of Ahmadinejad's tactics to hector Khamenei as a way to boost his status as an alternative pole of power, said Rasool Nafisi, an Iranian affairs analyst at Strayer University in Virginia.

"Ahmadinejad ... seems to have adopted a strategy of pressuring Khamenei to either force him out ? which would be a confession to Khamenei's poor judgment as the main support of Ahmadinejad ? or live with Ahmadinejad's continuous assaults on his position and close associates," Nafisi said. "Either way, Ahmadinejad will turn out a winner."

The unraveling of their relationship began when security forces crushed the protests over Ahmadinejad's re-election. Ahmadinejad increasingly bristled at having to take a back seat to the ruling clerics, who control all key political and policy decisions.

A political temper tantrum in April 2011 ? when Ahmadinejad boycotted meetings for 10 days to protest Khamenei's intelligence chief appointment ? opened the flood gates.

Dozens of Ahmadinejad's political allies were arrested or pushed to the margins, effectively blocking his chances of having a protege on the ballot in June. Meanwhile, the political fortunes brightened for Ahmadinejad rivals, such as parliament speaker Larijani.

Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad stunned parliament with a crude videotape that purported to show a discussion over bribes that included Larijani's brother. A week later, apparent Ahmadinejad backers hurled insults and shoes to disrupt a speech by Larijani in the seminary city of Qom.

On Friday, one of Khamenei's close allies, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, used his nationally broadcast Friday sermon to urge authorities to take "strong action" in response to the incident.

"Give up these hateful disputes," he told worshippers at Tehran University in an open reference to Ahmadinejad and Larijani. "People are tired of your fighting."

But Ahmadinejad seems to be suiting up for a pre-election scrap. Last week, he led gatherings that were interpreted as unofficial campaign events for his top aide, Esfandiari Rahim Mashaei, in an apparent challenge to election-vetting authorities who either have to clear him or reject him.

Ahmadinejad "is a political figure who has some residual popular base, a political infrastructure, who knows where all the bodies are buried and is very eager to talk," said Brookings analyst Maloney. "That makes Ahmadinejad the most dangerous man in the Islamic Republic."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irans-leader-steps-deeper-political-fray-182822302.html

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Ideals to NCAA FOOTBALL 14

ANIMATIONS: Jukes, spins and broken tackles are entirely too long,?cutting scripted animations such as this?will eliminate dispostion leading ballcarrier?moves?to natural alignment?and not arkward field of play etc.

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ATHLETE'S WEIGHT FACTORS?: When speeding towards the endzone, or?trying to sack the?quarterback I feel light as a ?feather as?if my players?aren't of no weight, though he's weighing 200lbs. So, I thought to myself while watching a NFL player do speed drills [ 220lbs or more athlete pulling 220lbs plate chained to his waist ] and said ''if he can implement it than EASPORTS can showcase it within their game by using weight vs speed = resistance .

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BLOCKING DEFENDERS:? Offensive lineman has no sense of blocking unless there's a clear path to block someome, how hard is it to find and block the man closest to the ballcarrier? This is reason why gaming run ahead of their blocks, can't trust'em.

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FOOTPLANTING/JUKES/SPIN:? Footplanting is essential to pulling off Barry Sander like moves when trying to shake off a defender, footplanting is not skating . It's illustration is as simple,?as hitting a block of ice with a icepick and pulling it out.

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PRACTICE DRILLS: Every gamer would love some type of technique drill that would perfect?there craft, similar to what we see?on college or pro level. Drills that benefit and give realistic aspect of a challege. Something that'll have the user shedding blood, sweat and to tears just take out on their opponents.

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TRENCH FIGHTING & MOVEMENTS: When ball is hiked, my defensive lineman and linemans veer off course like it was pre-determine. In MADDEN 99, line play was great you only lifted your head at the line scrimmage?unless you [ pressed up ] on the controller and never veer in a direction you were designed to go. Well-disciplined engine.

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CAMERA ANGLES: What ever happen to the Classic Camera? It was the perfect camera known to gaming, it kind of reminded you of Madden during 90's just with flare. You were in control?of the action from ball indicator, cut back lanes, position ( was a plus ) etc. It was like looking a chess board and your to make that move, do bring?it back!!!!!

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Cancer Plush - Neatorama

Cancer Plush

If only curing cancer were this simple. Behold the evil little malignant neoplasm that can be mushed, squished, and flipped inside out to become a healthy cell. This little plush makes a great gift for the cancer survival with a winning sense of humor.?

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Source: http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/15/Cancer-Plush/

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5 Reasons to Care About Friday's Asteroid Flyby

On Friday, an asteroid dubbed 2012 DA14 will whiz by Earth closer than any rock of its size since record-keeping began. But if NASA weren't aiming high-powered telescopes at 2012 DA14, most Earthlings would never know we'd been buzzed.

That's because the asteroid won't come any nearer than 17,150 miles (27,650 kilometers) away as it passes Earth. Still, 2012 DA14's lack of imminent threat to the planet is no reason to ignore the flyby.

From historical precedent to future implications, here's why you should care.

1. Asteroids are cool

Whether they fly by Earth or not, asteroids are important remnants of the early solar system. They formed early in the solar system's history, and their compositions may hint at why our neighbors are so diverse, from rocky Mars to gaseous Jupiter. That's one reason scientists are increasingly interested in probing the humble surfaces of asteroids. In 2007, NASA sent its Dawn spacecraft to the asteroid belt to visit Vesta and Ceres. Vesta is rocky and Ceres is icy, and the differences between the two could help explain what happened to differentiate the bodies in our solar system after they formed.

2. It's happened before

Friday's flyby is record-breaking; skywatchers have never before recorded an asteroid of this size passing so close to Earth. Unrecorded close calls are another story. In 1908, a hunk of space rock about 150 feet (45 meters) in diameter screamed into the atmosphere near the Tunguska River in Siberia. The asteroid or comet fragment ? about the size of the White House ? broke up explosively in the atmosphere, leveling more than 800 square miles (1,287 square kilometers) of forest. [The 10 Greatest Explosions Ever]

Fortunately, the Tunguska Event happened in an extremely remote area, with the nearest human eyewitnesses miles away. But a rock like the one that caused the Tunguska Event, or like the one that will zip by Earth Friday, could level Washington D.C., and its suburbs, said Mark Boslough, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, who has used computer modeling to recreate the Tunguska impact.

3. It will happen again

2012 DA14's flyby is a close one, but the asteroid itself is an old friend. Though first discovered in 2012, the space rock passes by Earth fairly frequently. It has an orbit around the sun roughly similar to Earth's, and zings by about twice per orbit. That means we'll be seeing 2012 DA14 again, although not as up-close. The next near-approach by the asteroid is scheduled for Feb. 15, 2046, according to NASA, when 2012 DA14 will pass about 995,000 miles (1.6 million km) from Earth. (Needless to say, astronomers have different ideas about "nearness" than most people.)

4. No, really ? 2012 DA14 is one in (half) a million

Observing and measuring asteroids like 2012 DA14 is important because there are at least 500,000 of them out there. Less than 1 percent of these midsized near-Earth objects have been discovered, according to NASA.

Discoveries are made with optical telescopes, though once asteroids get close enough, scientists can use radar to better understand them. Astronomers of the La Sagra Sky Survey at the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain discovered 2012 DA14 last February when the asteroid was 2.7 million miles (4.3 million km) from Earth.

Scientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office say that an asteroid the same size as 2012 DA14 approaches Earth this closely about every 40 years. Once every 1,200 years or so, one this size hits the planet. [See Photos of Asteroid 2012 DA14]

5. It helps us prepare

2012 DA14 won't hit Earth. But a close flyby like Friday's gives scientists the opportunity to think about what they'd do in the case of a once-in-a-thousand-year event, Sandia's Boslough told LiveScience.

For example, size estimates of asteroids are tentative until they reach radar range, Boslough said. Scientists would be able to pinpoint where an asteroid on a collision course with Earth would hit, but they wouldn't know with complete certainty how big it would be. Thus, evacuation orders might need to go out to larger areas than the best estimate of the size of the impact would suggest in order to be safe.

"For a lot of us, this is an opportunity to think about that, because we are going to have the answer when it does fly by," Boslough said of 2012 DA14. "What is the true size going to be relative to the estimates?"

Follow Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas?or LiveScience @livescience. We're also on Facebook?& Google+.

Copyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/5-reasons-care-fridays-asteroid-flyby-042802278.html

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Crime and Punishment: The Bolshoi Ballet Scandal Continues - Artinfo

In the 18th century, French balletmaster?Jean-Georges Noverre?argued that for ballet to move forward it had to move away from ?light and entertaining interludes? toward ?dark and serious ballets about incest, murder, and betrayal.? The Russians, arguably, perfected this vision of ballet. The dark subject matter and universal language made it the official art of the Soviet state. The Communist Party, during the early-20th century, was highly invested in the ballet, controlling every aspect of production down to the costumes.?Joseph Stalin?was said to have spent a lot of time at the ballet and had his own private viewing box at the Bolshoi Theater, ?a specially designed bulletproof enclave tucked into the corner of the house to the left of the stage? which ?had a separate entrance from the street and an adjoining room stocked with vodka and equipped with a telephone,? according to?Jennifer Homans?s ?Apollo?s Angels: A History of Ballet.? Post-war, Stalin?s successor,?Nikita Khruschev, claimed he saw ?Swan Lake? so many times that it haunted his dreams.

As evidenced by recent events surrounding the legendary Bolshoi Ballet, Noverre?s view of a modern, contemporary ballet is still present. The only problem is it?s not happening on the stage, but in real life. In the past month, the troupe has been?embroiled in a scandal involving backstage battles, deep betrayal, and malicious violence, stemming from a brutal attack on artistic director Sergei Filin. In the latest development, dancers are now suspects in the mysterious drama that surrounds them and threatens to tarnish the legacy of the ballet forever.

The Filin incident is of extreme proportions, and the proplems that have plagued the company in recent years seem to have foreshadowed the current state of the ballet troupe. In the fall of 2011, amid a reopening of the Bolshoi Theater after closing down for renovations in 2005, the ballet company ? the largest in the world with over 200 dancers ? found itself in the middle of a kerfuffle when?Gennady Yanin, the deputy director of the company, was forced out after images of him in bed with other men were posted online. The leak of the photos, which were sent by email to many prominent figures in Russian society, was said to be retaliation for Yanin refusing to accept financial blackmail. At the same time, former dancers?spoke to The Guardian?about how the theater had become ?a quasi-escort agency for wealthy donors? where girls were told that they would have a future within the company only if they went to parties organized for donors. The Bolshoi Ballet quickly denied these claims.

It was during this time that Filin?was appointed artistic director of the ballet troupe. A former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, Filin was forced to retire in 2004 due to a hip injury. He has referred to his short time as the artistic director of the company as ?the war,? and ongoing battle over ?roles, money, and on-stage glory.? According to?an article in The Daily Beast, there were small ?revolts? among the dancers and different factions of the ballet?s administration. In the same Beast article, Filin admitted that his tires had been slashed after a disagreement and his personal email had been hacked on numerous occasions.

All this?came to a head?this year on January 18 when, after several weeks of threats and intimidation, a masked assailant threw sulfuric acid in the face of Filin outside his home in Moscow. Filin suffered third-degree burns and damage to his eyes. Immediately, people in the company believed it was an inside job. Many thought it had to do with how Filin assigned roles to dancers within the highly competitive company.?According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, Filin reportedly said that long before he was with the company, dancers sometimes found crushed glass in their pointe shoes.

Although Filin has said that he never expected the strife within the company to lead to physical violence, this type of attack is not exactly new to the Bolshoi Ballet. In 2010, principal dancer?Natalia Osipova, in New York as a guest artist of the American Ballet Theater, was mugged after leaving the Metropolitan Opera House. The two assailants struck her in the nose and, oddly, only stole her point shoes and a small hammer used to shape them,?reported the New York Times.

So it?s no surprise now that?reports over the weekend?suggest the main suspects in the acid attack on Filin are dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet. Police have not arrested anyone over the attack, and it?s unclear which, or if all, the dancers are suspected. Filin has stated publically that he knows who committed the crime, and that it is certainly connected to his work, but will not name specific names due to the investigation. Prima ballerina?Svetlana Lunkina, who was in Canada during the latest scandal,?has said publically?that she is afraid to return to Russia, while the Bolshoi Ballet has started reacting against the accusations against them, even?threatening to sue?one of their own principal dancers who has been uncommonly outspoken.

The blurring of art and life: where do the drama of the stage end and the tragedies of life begin? The scandal of the Bolshoi Ballet shines a light on the highly competitive world of ballet, a real life version of the?Natalie Portman-starring psycho-ballet drama ?Black Swan.? Even odder: What do you think the first production at Bolshoi Ballet, just over two weeks following the attack of Filin, was?

Of course it was ?Swan Lake.?

Source: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/867529/crime-and-punishment-the-bolshoi-ballet-scandal-continues-to

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How To Create And Sell An eBook On A Budget

Now is the best time ever to create your own book and with the internet, it no longer has to be very expensive nor do you need to have a publisher; you can now create a simple eBook written in front of your computer and still achieve the same benefits you'd achieve from publishing a book.

In fact, sometimes, it's better to create an eBook than a book; it's easier, too. Fortunately, getting people to pay you for your eBook is no longer a problem; E-junkie has solutions that make it extremely easy for professionals of all kind to create and sell their eBook.

If you're considering creating an eBook, here are some of the benefits to having your own eBook;

• It's free and easy to do; with a computer and a Word application, creating an eBook is extremely easy today

• It can serve as a great source of income; people are now paying attention to eBooks than physical books and eBooks can be sold for much more than physical books, so having an eBook can be a great source of income for you

• It instantly positions you as an expert; if you're qualified to write an eBook on anything, then you probably already know a great deal about it

• It helps you reach a bigger audience; if you leverage E-junkie's payment system's affiliate option, you can get affiliates to promote your eBook to their audience and expand your reach as a result

While all the above benefits sound great, creating and selling an eBook isn't exactly as easy as ABC. It requires some planning and that's what this article will help you uncover in a series of steps:

Step 1: Determine a Topic Your eBook will be About
This is very important; the first step is to look for a main market that centers on people's problem, passion or pain e.g. healthcare, getting out of debt, making money, playing chess, bedwetting etc. These are all topics that are examples of problems, pains and passions people have.

Once you've determined a market, the next step is to determine a sub-niche; creating a book on "how to play chess" would be very difficult to market today due to the fact that there are many books on the subject. However, you'll increase your chance of selling an eBook on chess if it's "How Your 6-Year Old Kid can become a Chess Master"; you see how specific and niche that is?

Step 2: Create a Website
Once?you've?determined your niche and eBook topic, the next step is to create a website.

It won't work for you to just create your eBook because marketing will then be a problem. The purpose of your website is to position yourself as an authority and build a base for yourself by constantly updating your website and promoting it in various places online.

For creating a website, I'll recommend a tool called Easy WebContent; Easy Web Content has an easy online website builder and a web based html editor that allows you to create a website or edit your existing websites.

An example of a bestselling author using Easy WebContent is Antonia Felix.

You'll be able to choose from dozens of themes and then customize to your taste, even if you're not a designer.

I know, you're wondering why I didn't recommend Wordpress like everybody else is doing? The reason is simple, as promised by the title of this post, we are creating an eBook under a budget and while Wordpress is free, it often costs thousands of dollars to have a professional design and maintain your blog; something you can do freely as an Easy WebContent user.

With that said, let's go to the next step.

Step 3: Plan Your Content
The reason I recommended creating a website is so that you can position yourself as an expert on your topic; you can do this in many ways, but the easiest way is by publishing relevant content on your website. Doing this will benefit you because people will link to you and talk about your website, people will naturally start seeing you as an expert as you write more about a topic and your rankings in the search engines will improve, which will result in more sales.

To do this, it's important to effectively plan your content, though; you want to keep writing about the same subject. If you're writing the example eBook on chess for 6-year-old kids, for example, your content could center around "checkmating techniques for kids" or "how to get your kid to master chess quickly" or "chess tactics for kids 6 years and under"; you get the idea? You want to position yourself as a go to expert when people talk about kids and chess.

Also, whenever you publish content on your website you want to be referencing your eBook in your content and recommending it as a great resource.

Step 4: Create Your eBook
Now that you have an idea for your eBook as well as a website, the next step is to write and create your eBook.

For you to have settled on a topic then it means you have great understanding of the eBook. The next thing you want to do is to write and convert your eBook to PDF; if you're using a current edition of Microsoft Word ? 2007 and above ? then this shouldn't be a problem. You can simply write and format your eBook in Word and then save it as PDF before uploading it to E-junkie.

If you're not using Windows or don't have a Microsoft Word version that converts to PDF, you can install the Open Office software; this makes it very easy for you to write your eBook and save it to PDF.

Once you've created your eBook, you will then follow the instructions provided by the E-junkie payment system to upload your eBook, add a pricing and then sell it.

With this, I believe you can create and sell your eBook for just under $100; you don't have to break the bank or spend a fortune and you get great results as well.

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Joseph Oni is a marketer with 2 years of experience and the founder of a top guest blogging blog,?you should hire him for your guest blogging needs.

Source: http://www.e-junkie.info/2013/02/how-to-create-and-sell-ebook-on-budget.html

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Deutsche Bank Compares US To Communism - Business Insider

Bilal Hafeez, Deutsche Bank's Global Head of FX Strategy, recently gave a speech at?the bank's annual Chinese New Year Dinner in London earlier this week.

Hafeez took a sweeping tour across the global economic landscape, examining the big stories in the United States, Europe, and China.

With regard to China, Hafeez focused on the obvious need for the country to rebalance from a centralized, investment-driven model to a more consumption-driven economy.

What followed after that may not be as obvious: Hafeez advanced an interesting parallel between the U.S. economy and the communist ideal.

An excerpt from the speech is included below:

You may think that the US is the antithesis of the Marxist ideal. You may be mistaken.

In the Communist Manifesto published in 1848, Karl Marx and Friederich Engels demanded a list of immediate actions that capitalist economies should follow on the path to communism. What were they? Free education, well the US has that. Progressive tax system: which the US has. Curbs on inheritance: which the US has. Fair labour laws: which the US has.

Centralised credit: which was perhaps not the case before the 2008 crisis, but is certainly the case now with the nexus of the Fed and regulation providing a strong centralised system of credit.

It also demanded the public ownership of land. This for many is the ultimate differentiator between a capitalist state and a communist state. But even for the US, the picture gets blurred when one considers that 30% of land in the US is?directly owned by the Federal government. Of the land that is not held by the US government, 80% of householders are either renting or have a mortgage.

Remember, having a mortgage means that the property is owned by the mortgage provider, not the private individual. In a centralised credit system and as became apparent since 2008, the ultimate underwriter of these mortgages is the US government. So the vast majority of property in the US could be traced back to the state. The spirit of Karl Marx lives on in corners of the world one would least expect!?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/deutsche-bank-compares-us-to-communism-2013-2

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Mother says she forgave man who held boy in bunker

In this photo provided by the Governor's office, from right to left, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and First Lady Dianne Bentley watch as Ethan Gilman shows his mother, Jennifer Kirkland, a toy mouse Bentley gave him to play with on a visit to the Governor's Office in Montgomery, Ala. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2012. Ethan was held hostage in an underground bunker in a near week-long standoff in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Governor's Office, Jamie Martin)

In this photo provided by the Governor's office, from right to left, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and First Lady Dianne Bentley watch as Ethan Gilman shows his mother, Jennifer Kirkland, a toy mouse Bentley gave him to play with on a visit to the Governor's Office in Montgomery, Ala. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2012. Ethan was held hostage in an underground bunker in a near week-long standoff in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Governor's Office, Jamie Martin)

In this photo provided by the Governor's office, six-year-old Ethan Gilman plays under the table during a visit to the Governor's Office in Montgomery, Ala. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2012. Ethan was held hostage in an underground bunker in a near week-long standoff in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Governor's Office, Jamie Martin)

In this photo provided by the Governor's office, Gov. Robert Bentley, left, draws with 6-year-old Ethan Gilman during a visit to the Governor's Office in Montgomery, Ala. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2012. Ethan was held hostage in an underground bunker in a near week-long standoff in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Governor's Office, Jamie Martin)

The mother of an Alabama boy held for days in an underground bunker said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that she forgave her son's captor early in the standoff and asked authorities not to harm him.

Jennifer Kirkland's son, Ethan Gilman, was a captive for six days in rural Midland City, Ala., before FBI agents entered the bunker and killed 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes.

Dykes "took care of Ethan to the best of his abilities" by cooking chicken for the boy and asking hostage negotiators to bring the child his favorite toy car, his mother told Dr. Phil McGraw in an interview for the "Dr. Phil Show."

"From the very beginning I had already forgiven Mr. Dykes, even though he still had my child," Kirkland said. "...I asked that he not be hurt. But if it came down to it, you know, of course I want my child safe."

Authorities returned Ethan unharmed after a gunbattle in which Dykes, according to a coroner, was shot multiple times. Kirkland said her son, who turned 6 just two days after the rescue, told her that he witnessed the shooting.

Members of the rescue team used stun grenades to disorient Dykes, who had a gun and had become agitated with negotiators, before rushing into the bunker, she said.

"They went in and covered Ethan with a vest and they shot Mr. Dykes," Kirkland said.

Ethan saw the agents kill his captor, his mother said, just as days earlier he had witnessed Dykes storm onto his school bus and fatally shoot the driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr.

Poland and Ethan had become close, Kirkland said, as the driver had helped the boy work up the courage to get off the bus by himself.

"Ethan has always been scared of coming down the bus steps," Kirkland said. "And Mr. Poland would always cheer him on, you know, 'Come on, little buddy, you can do it.'"

Ethan typically sat right behind Poland on the school bus, where the driver could keep an eye on him, Kirkland said.

That's where the boy was sitting the day police say Dykes came aboard the bus armed with a gun and demanding two hostages. Authorities say Poland was shot trying to stand between Dykes and the children.

"The reason I think Ethan was taken off the bus is because when he saw Mr. Poland shot, Ethan passed out," Kirkland said. "Mr. Dykes went down to catch him and he picked him up. And I think, in his own way, he was trying to care for him."

After the shooting, authorities say, Dykes fled to the bunker with the child as the standoff opened.

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Horsemeat scandal exposes complex food chain

Political artist Kaya Mar poses for photographs with his horsemeat scandal painting which depicts French President, Francois Hollande, and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, in London, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. British authorities on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing company suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and burgers, shutting them down temporarily and seizing all the meat found. Millions of burgers and frozen meals have been recalled around Europe and many accusations have been made, but so far it's not clear how horsemeat got introduced into so many beef products. French authorities have already pointed to an elaborate supply chain that involved Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot traders that resulted in horsemeat disguised as beef being sold in meals like lasagne and moussaka to consumers around the continent. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Political artist Kaya Mar poses for photographs with his horsemeat scandal painting which depicts French President, Francois Hollande, and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, in London, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. British authorities on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing company suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and burgers, shutting them down temporarily and seizing all the meat found. Millions of burgers and frozen meals have been recalled around Europe and many accusations have been made, but so far it's not clear how horsemeat got introduced into so many beef products. French authorities have already pointed to an elaborate supply chain that involved Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot traders that resulted in horsemeat disguised as beef being sold in meals like lasagne and moussaka to consumers around the continent. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

LONDON (AP) ? First, there was "pink slime." Then horsemeat. Most recently? "Desinewed meat."

Recent revelations that such products have reached dinner tables, including horsemeat falsely labeled as beef in Europe, have cast an unappetizing light on the global food industry.

Critics say the widening horsemeat scandal in particular is a result of a food supply chain that has become too complex to be safe. Others say we are stuck with the system: In today's world, foodstuffs are highly mobile commodities, while consumers have come to expect ? and increasingly need ? plentiful, cheap meat.

Genevieve Cazes-Valette, a French anthropologist who studies food, said that throughout history, people around the world have had a special and intense relationship with meat.

"When we fast, we don't give up bread. We give up meat," she said.

A century ago, meat was a dish primarily for special occasions or the rich. That's still the case in much of the world, but today consumers in wealthy countries expect meat to be their primary source of protein, and they want it inexpensive and convenient. They'd also prefer not to think too hard about where it came from.

"They want cheap and they want good," Cazes-Valette said.

Europe's horsemeat scandal has exposed a food supply chain set up to fulfill that demand ? one in which meat from a Romanian abattoir can end up in British lasagna by way of companies in Luxembourg and France.

Since horse DNA was found in burgers from an Irish plant last month, the scandal has snaked its way across the continent, exposing a haphazard system with seemingly little rhyme or reason.

Horsemeat is not generally considered unsafe to eat, but the scandal has triggered disgust in places such as Britain where it traditionally is not eaten and anger over the mislabeling of food products.

Three of the British firms whose products were found to contain horsemeat say they got the products from a French food processing firm, Comigel.

Comigel instructed Tavola, its subsidiary in Luxembourg, to make the products. Tavola placed an order for the meat with supplier Spanghero, based in the south of France, which contacted a Cypriot trader, who subcontracted a Dutch trader.

The Dutch trader placed an order with abattoirs in Romania, which sent the meat to Spanghero. The Romanians deny mislabeling horsemeat as beef.

Spanghero sent it on to Comigel's factory in Luxembourg, and it went into food products sent to stores across Europe.

Apart from the use of horsemeat ? whose origins remain disputed ? there is nothing unusual about the process. But the thought of anything making an unannounced appearance in prepared foods disturbs consumers.

"In France as elsewhere, people have this idea that we don't know quite what we're eating. We don't know where it comes from. We don't know who has touched it," Cazes-Valette said.

That unease stems partly from the fact that people in developed countries have become detached from the origins of the food they eat.

British Conservative lawmaker Mark Spencer argued in the House of Commons this week that the horsemeat crisis arose partly because "we have lost context of how valuable food is."

"You could say the same about car tires," he said. "You would never buy second-hand cheap car tires from someone on the cheap because you would instantly recognize that your own individual safety is at risk."

It's true that in many Western countries food has rarely been so cheap, and we have never been so dependent on cheap food.

In Britain, for instance, food once was one of the major household expenses, but now U.K. households spend less on food than on transport, culture and recreation, housing or fuel.

According to the Office for National Statistics, British households spent on average just over 11 percent of their income on food in 2011, much less than a few decades ago.

But the global economic crisis has hit incomes and, simultaneously, factors including bad weather, growing demand and speculation have caused prices for staples such as wheat, corn and soybeans to rise.

In the austerity-hit countries of Europe, people are buying less food, and seeking cheaper food. So there's a rise in demand for low-cost processed foods, including cheap burgers, pasta meals and pies.

Supermarkets, under pressure to offer cheap food, demand suppliers provide products for less. That means bulking out burgers with the cheapest ingredients possible.

Some in Britain have blamed the horsemeat fraud on an abrupt European ban on the use of "desinewed meat," the minced flesh that comes from rubbing animal carcasses that have already been stripped of prime cuts. Desinewed meat played a major role in British meat products ? but since last year's ban, suppliers have had to find a replacement.

And that, some believe, is where horsemeat came into the picture.

Elizabeth Dowler, professor of food and social policy at the University of Warwick, said the root of the problem is that food has become a vast international industry whose main concern is the bottom line.

"Food is treated as a commodity," she said. "It is not seen as something that contributes to well-being.

"The reality is that the food system is largely in the private sector and it is about running businesses, very successful businesses that make a lot of money."

European fears about horsemeat echo those that swept across the United States last year when the use of a meat product dubbed "pink slime" became widely known.

Like desinewed meat or horseflesh, it was never alleged that "pink slime" was unfit for human consumption, but the thought of fatty bits of beef being treated with a puff of ammonia to kill bacteria was something of a turnoff for Americans.

The reaction to "pink slime" was drastic.

Fast food companies, including McDonald's, changed their menus. Grocery stores promised to stop selling it. All but three states opted against buying meat with the product for school meals. And the meat processors that churned out the product began closing plants and laying off employees.

Cazes-Valette predicted a similar reaction in Europe.

"People will go back to buying pure beef, that they're going to prepare themselves," she said. "Maybe they're even going to go back to the butcher, where they know what's going on."

And, she added, rather than pay more "they're going to eat less."

But Michael Walker, a science and food law consultant to British food-testing and analysis company LGC, said it will be hard for people to break their dependence on a complex food supply chain, especially if they want year-round availability of a wide range of products.

Walker said the horsemeat scandal shows the system of testing and regulation is fallible, but not fundamentally broken.

He said the science of DNA testing that exposes adulterated meat is robust, but that regulators, many of whom are facing government budget cuts, needed to use more "intelligence-led sampling" to catch offenders.

"The ingenuity of fraudsters is almost infinite, but we must do our best to try and keep up," he said.

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Hinnant contributed from Paris.

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